Monday, December 21, 2009

Egg McGuffins ... and Solstice with the Pets!

I know this is horrible, but I used to love going through the McDonald's drive-thru in my pre-vegan days to order egg & cheese biscuits and McMuffins. I thought, since I was leaving off the meat, that it must be better for me. That was before I read Fast Food Nation, mind you. These days, the thought of anything from McDonald's makes me shudder. But these Egg McGuffins from Vegan Comfort Food by Alicia Simpson surely didn't make me shudder this solstice morning:

The "egg" part is made from silk tofu, nooch, and turmeric. And of course, I added a little black salt (not in the recipe) for effect. The "egg" cooking technique is similar to that of the tofu omelet in Vegan Brunch. The "sausage" is Gimme Lean, and the super-melty cheeze is Tofutti American cheese. The English muffin is a whole wheat version from Whole Foods. Perfect way to begin my Winter Solstice morning.

Since my dog Datsun opens presents with his grandparents on Xmas Day, we do presents at home on Solstice. He got a big ole (very non-vegan) rawhide bone and a new pillow bed:

I hate giving him those icky rawhide bones, but I swear, nothing in the world makes him happier. Just look at those crazy eyes! Anyone know of a decent vegan faux rawhide dog bone? I'd gladly order him some if I could find them.

As for the cats, all six of them went crazy for their new catnip snakes. Just look at Pandora:

And Gelfling got pissed when he couldn't decide between the new swatter toy or the catnip snake. Look at that crazy face. Roar!

31 comments:

Ooohhh Bianca you have outdone yourself this time. I think this might just be the best post ever! You've got so many great things that I love all in one place - greasy tofu eggs (LOVE) and sausage piled on a biscuit (the best thing ever) and cute dog pictures (love the gigantic bed and even more gigantic bone!) and those crazy kitties! Love it all!

I love the pictures of you with your pets, you're really cute btw. I love the one with the black cat haha.

I used to looove mc'd's egg mcmuffins, no meat please, like that made it any healthier lol. I did the same thing. I watched fast food nation and nearly barfed. That movie or book should be mandatory in high schools...

Those are the funniest cat pics ever! I need a faster camera, for sure. May cat made my blog today because he stole somebody else's catnip toy but even he didn't look as crazed. Hilarious! Merry Solstice!

Awe, happy solstice, pets! I just picked up a stuffed animal coyote and deer for Graeme and Ellie to thrash on Christmas, and some vegan (and gluten-free!) pumpkin sage dog treats. I'm totally going to sample one.

On the matter of rawhide bones, sorry, but I've only found the tiny version, and not the huge ones. Maybe you could try your hand at vegan cooking for dogs! In the meantime, I'll keep searching, because my puppy needs some chew toys as well.

But be careful, rawhide has been rumored to splinter in dogs stomachs, so make sure Datsun doesn't bite off too much at one time!!

Your kitty cat is so cute. I love that picture :) Im still waiting to try those out with my mom. Shes an omni and was so surprised when I told her those were vegan, she was like "they look just like the real thing"

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I'm a 9-year vegan, 19-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.